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You don’t always need drugs to change brain chemistry, you can change eating habits to change your mood, for example, and that is because you changed your brain chemistry. You can also re-wire your br...

I treat myself the way my mind feels most comfortable. I don’t put myself in situations where I’m going to stutter a lot or be of any inconvenience to anyone. I work/look for work where I can work m...

I just do things that I otherwise wouldn’t because of my stutter. And then my stutter flairs up. I get blamed for the life I live because I’m not living up to my full potential. But I’m not living up ...

Just reading your comment, I don't think your vocabulary is a s basic as you think. You seem to be above average in that field....

When you said, you can't think or focus on anything when you have to, it stuck out to me. I wasn't diagnosed until 38. I had no idea. My doctor suggested it. After reading about it, it made sense ...

If you poke around here and finds the posts about drugs, You will find they are inconsistent, anecdotal, and sometimes placebo. Why we stutter? I dont know, but I can relate to the situational stutte...

Smarter than 80-90%? I think you’re reaching bro, it’s okay to have a stutter and it’s okay to have brain fog. A stutter doesn’t mean I need to learn everything because I can think about whatever I wa...

Charge nurse here and totally understand how you’re feeling, I’m the same in that my stutter isn’t severe but is noticeable at times throughout the day. It’s weirdly a gift to openly stutter (and open...

I was scared to death. We had stuttering heavily on both sides of genetics. I stutter 78f, my father stuttered until the age of 20, my husband’s mother stuttered very mildly, she was 99+% fluent her e...

Something that was helpful for me was meeting people through the National stuttering association. There are groups across the country where people who stutter meet and just talk about different life s...

Thank you so much for your response and encouragement! I feel a bit better going into this profession. I think I’m a bit hard on myself sometimes, and believe that I’m the only one that’s experiencin...

wow, it definitely feels comforting to know that there are other healthcare workers that have a stutter and seem to be thriving and/or not feeling like they stutter inhibits them. Thank you for answer...

I know of an AGT winner who was a comedian who used his stutter in his acts. Like "it's good stutters aren't used as a gps because your destttttttttennnnstion iiissss that way make a U-turn."...

Don't be so sure of what you can't do. I knew I'd never speak fluently at your age. I was wrong. Regret lasts a very long time. Embarrassment and frustration fade pretty quickly. Avoid regret, it wil...

I have an app called big note, you can type and maximise the font to fill the whole screen. It’s so convenient and it makes people’s life easier. But same my stutter became worse than ever to the poin...

Im an OT and my stutter helps to develop therapeutic rapport with patients, especially those with parkinsons, stroke, aphasia etc. I think its humanizing...

stuttering is not your fault!

stuttering is not your fault! This post is for anyone who needs some stutter-positive affirmations…. (If you’re not in a space for stutter-positive content, that’s totally fine! You don’t have to be!)...

just venting….can anyone relate?

just venting….can anyone relate? Just want to vent and see if anyone has similar stories…. Have you been in a situation where somebody assumes you don’t want to do a speaking situation… when actuall...

Thanks for the reply. For this reason I have become very empathetic and emotional. I can’t even think of something similar with my future family. It’s her inherent characteristics and still there is n...

I don’t think she had any traumatic event in her life. Her parents are good and so is my father, she has a very comfortable and tension free life. It’s her inherent character that’s fucked up....